The Wily Filipino

Five Answers.

All five have been correctly answered (see comments from the other day's post).

1. The old and the new: Beverly Hills and the oldest street in the Philippines is located in this city. What is the city's name?

The exclusive subdivision of Beverly Hills and Colon Street -- named after Columbus, established in 1565 -- are both located in Cebu City. Don't miss the huge Chinese temple up in the hills.

2. In an elaborate parody of Superman, Mighty Mouse and "The Empire Strikes Back," Joey de Leon plays a boy named Mickey with super powers who discovers that his arch-enemy, played by Ruel Vernal in a Darth Vader suit, is actually his father. What is the full title of this film, whose name was bleeped out by censors in television ads?

Dyno -- Dyno Atienza, is that you? -- got this one (and the next): Super Mouse and the Roborats. The voiceover in its TV ads would go, "Super Mouse and the Robo[bleep]."

3. The seminal Pinoy punk/hardcore/thrash band G.I. and the Idiots gave us such memorable lyrics as "The Philippine flag is a dirty old rag" and a stanza of almost Wordsworth-like lyricism, "We can't get along with our music! / We can't get along with our songs! / We can't get along with our assholes! / So we put our assholes in our songs!" What did "G.I." stand for?

"G.I." stood for George Imbecile, their bassist. Their 1986 debut album Fascinating World of Garbage is a must-listen for anyone who cares about Pinoy music history, released by the influential Twisted Red Cross label. (An overwhelming number of people from the previous quiz answered "Genuine Ilocano." Do you really think any "genuine Ilocano" would call their punk band "Genuine Ilocano and the Idiots?" "G.I.," of course, really stands for Government Issue, but not in this case.)

4. In September 1975, he told Sports Illustrated magazine, "I was the national champion in shooting. I won the championship when I was 16 and kept it for many years. My shooting got me in trouble. I was once charged with murder, but was acquitted." Who is the person speaking?

None other than the late "old twat" Ferdinand Marcos. (Lead singer of that other seminal Pinoy punk/hardcore/thrash band, Genuine Ilocano and His Idiots.)

5. "She raised her skirts and contemptuously thrust out a naked foot. He lifted his dripping face and touched his bruised lips to her toes; lifted his hands and grasped the white foot and kissed it savagely -- kissed the step, the sole, the frail ankle -- while she bit her lips and clutched in pain at the windowsill, her body distended and wracked by horrible shivers, her head flung back and her loose hair streaming out the window -- streaming fluid and black in the white night where the huge moon glowed like a sun and the dry air flamed into lightning and the pure heat burned with the immense intense fever of noon." It's the last paragraph of a classic short story by which author?

It's from "The Summer Solstice," written by Nick Joaquin in 1947.

Posted by the wily filipino at August 15, 2003 09:37 AM